Highgate tube station

Highgate is a London Underground station and former railway station in Archway Road, in the London Borough of Haringey in north London. The station takes its name from nearby Highgate Village. It is on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line, between East Finchley and Archway stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 3.

Highgate
Archway Road entrance to Highgate Station
Highgate
Location of Highgate in Greater London
LocationHighgate
Local authorityLondon Borough of Haringey
Managed byLondon Underground
Number of platforms2
Fare zone3
London Underground annual entry and exit
2018 5.29 million
2019 5.65 million
2020 2.34 million
2021 2.43 million
2022 4.24 million
Key dates
22 August 1867Opened (surface platforms)
19 January 1941Opened (Northern line platforms)
3 July 1954Closed (surface platforms)
1970Closed (surface tracks to all traffic)
Other information
External links
WGS8451.5777°N 0.1458°W / 51.5777; -0.1458
 London transport portal

The station was originally opened in 1867, on the Great Northern Railway's line between Finsbury Park and Edgware stations. As part of their only partially completed Northern Heights plan, the London Underground started serving the station in 1941, using new platforms in tunnels beneath the surface station. The platforms of the surface station remain, but were last used in 1954; the section of the line through them to Finsbury Park was closed in 1970 and lifted by 1972. One of the original 1867 station buildings still exists and is in use as a private house.

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